Month: July 2020

The magazine Palabra Nueva wanted to share the expressions of a group of diverse voices to offer to its readers as a sample of the personal and collective experiences that have been lived in this peculiar and amazing leap year, this twenty-twenty become quarent. Under the title “Notes of the Year of the Covid”, the new series opens up space for chronicle, interview, poetry… in short, to genders where the saying of women, men, young people, children and the elderly will rest. An entrepreneur, a plastic artist, a housewife, a mother, a son… He will also say a bishop and an evangelist. An emigration, a doctor… Everyone will tell how their days have elapsed, how they have faced the challenges, and what reading they make of what happened. Angel Alonso Blanco, Cuban visual artist, art critic and editor, is the first to communicate his experience.

The Archbishop of Havana recalls Cardinal Jaime Ortega, on the first anniversary of his death and asks the Lord for his eternal rest.

The Covid-19 crisis has tested not only the health systems of the affected countries, but also the different societies and states in the face of the two major problems posed: the health and functioning of the economy. Prioritizing the second over the former has deepened the crisis in some nations. In the case of Cuba, it has been favored by an effective health system articulated with the decisions of the government and the state, which have been clear that health is the most important thing, even if the economy is battered and suffers the onslating of border closures with its consequences for the entry of tourists, which is one of the few columns of that economy. On these and other notes goes this approach to the year of the Covid.